At 10:33 PM 9/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello to all:
>I've been following with great interest the GPW discussion and certainly
>appreciate the expertise of everyone involved. I was reading a few WWII
>copies of "Leatherneck" magazine from 1943 and found three
>advertisements by Willys-Overland concerning the Jeep. They were full
>page, inside back cover, color ads with the top half a reprint of a
>drawing by "famous war artist" Mr. James Sessions. the text then tells
>the story of the picture - Engineers Bridge new Guinea River Under Fire
>- Marines on Guadacanal, etc. At the end there are two statements that
>I thought that might be of interest.
>
>1. "It was Willys-Overland's fine staff of engineers who, in close
>cooperation with Army Service forces, designed and perfected the Jeep.
>This unit of America's modern motorized army is procured and maintained
>by the Ordanance Department for our fighting forces - throughout the
>world. Willys-Overland Motors, Inc."
>
>2. "the fighting heart of every Jeep in the world-and the source of its
>amazing power, speed, flexibility, dependability and fuel economy - is
>the Jeep "Go-Devil" Engine, which was designed and perfected by
>Willys-Overland, "Builders of the mighty Jeep"."
>
>
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